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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HENRY SCHULTZ, of Prussia, now resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sofa and Bed combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, `in which- Figure 1 represents the longitudinal section ofthe frame.,

Figure 2 the cross-section of the same, and

Figure 3 the tubular plate and rod. I

Thenature of my invention consists in arranging the seat of a sofa as an independent revolving frame, so that one side of it may be used as a sofa-cushion and the other side as a bed.

To enable others skilled'in'thc art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct the frame A of the seat separate from the balance of the frame, and mount'it in the frame on journals B, placed one at the centre of each end, these journals fitting in notches or recesses C in the ends of the main frame, so that the seat 'may revolve on said journals, and' thus be'tu'rned upside down; Its top is upholstered so as to be -used as aisofa-cushion, while its bottom is flat and arranged in thesha-pe of ay bed. To the top cushion of the sofa is 4attached the back E, by means lof metnllicplates P P and screws, so that it can be folded on the cu's'hion'. When the combination is tohe used as a' sofa this back is leaned against the wall, or may be held in its place by means of hooks. Two pins, G G, are screwed into the frame A for the purpose of putting on the ends of a strap, H, and to strap the hack E when folded on the top cushion. Tubular plates I I, with'sliding rodsK K, are fastened to the hack side of the frame A for the purposeof securing the frame to the sofa-frame, when the frame is overturned for bed purposes, by slidingV the rods and passing their ends into corresponding holes made in the sofa-frame. The cross-pieces of the back of the frame E a-reso arranged that they form in the back part a cavity, which cavity,iin combination with a piece of sheeting, L, tacked to the frame, forms a. bag to put in pillows, sheets, ,blankets'strapm and other things.` Thesofa seat may be arranged with springs or without. i

The operation consists in this: 'The combination' being arranged as a sofa, in order to use it as a bed the Y back E is folded upon the sofa-cushion, the'blankets, dto., are taken out oflthc bag; one ond ofthe strap is put on one of the pins G and the other end on the other pin G, and the strap tightened and buckled; then the frame is turned over, the rods K K secured into theholes, and the bed arranged. Thissofa and bed combinledniaybe easily adapt-ed forv sleeping-cars'and steamboat berths.

What lIelaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i Y. The revolving frame upholstered as a sofa-cushion on one side and as a bed on the other side, witha folding back as described, the whole constructed and operating substantially in the manner hereindescribed andV specified.

H. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses:

J. B. TURGHIN, Jas. R. HAYDEN. 

